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Troll Music
4.6 ★★★★★ 100 Google reviews · Guitar & music store in Venice, Florida
Guitar, cello, piano and ukulele store offering lessons and rentals for band instruments.
Plan your visit
- Repairs & setups a repair bench comes up in reviews and the store's own info — call ahead for turnaround, since good techs run a queue
- Buys & trades used gear they buy, trade, or consign used instruments — bring the case and any original parts, and expect trade credit to beat the cash offer
- Lessons lessons come up in reviews and the store's own info — call about openings, instruments taught, and rates before the first visit
- Instrument rentals rentals mentioned — the usual route for band & orchestra season; ask about rent-to-own credit
- Today see hours ·
- Phone (941) 484-8765
- Website trollmusic.com
Hours
| Monday | 10 AM–6 PM |
| Tuesday | 10 AM–6 PM |
| Wednesday | 10 AM–6 PM |
| Thursday | 10 AM–6 PM |
| Friday | 10 AM–6 PM |
| Saturday | 10 AM–4 PM |
| Sunday | Closed |
What's on the wall
“Once again you came to the rescue and saved my acoustic guitar.”
“Gerry did a great job setting up my Les Paul.”
“Even took the time to clamp my frets and set up the tress rod.”
“Lots of instruments and equipment in great shape, knowledgeable staff, and excellent instructors.”
Brands they deal
“I would have been happy if it was 90% of what I got but as it stands I basically received a brand new 1995 fender American standard stratocaster.”
What players say again and again
“George is talented, knowledgeable, kind, patient, I repeat patient, and on occasion, in order to accommodate my schedule, flexible.”
“Noah was so patient with me and my crazy ranting and random outbursts.”
From the reviews
My name is Dick. I commenced taking lessons with George Wanat in February of this year. For the first few months, the lessons were in person. As I do not reside in Florida during the Summer or Fall months, we have successfully maintained our weekly lessons remotely to the present date.
I have been taking guitar lessons since January of 2025 at Troll Music. I was assigned George Wanat as my instructor. George is an excellent instructor. His music pedigree is vast. When I first started I could play a handful of chords. George expanded my playing ability and knowledge of the fretboard by a huge margin.
I have been taking guitar lessons from George Wanat for about one year now. He is exceedingly patient and enthusiastic. I always look forward to my weekly lesson with him. I am an older learner who wanted to learn guitar once I retired. George teaches both older and young students.
I go to Troll music for music lessons, my teacher is George Whent. He’s one of the best instructions I ever had and we are moving forward quickly with our lessons and learning a lot new songs for me. I think I will always continue going there. He makes it easy and fun.George is a great music teacher. Thank you George 😊
Selling or trading gear at Troll Music
Troll Music comes up for buying and trading used gear — confirmed on their own site. Two things make the trip go better. First, bring the whole package: the case or gig bag, the original tremolo arm or bridge parts, the paperwork if you have it — a complete rig is worth real money more than a bare instrument, and it saves the back-and-forth of "can you bring the case in?" Second, know that trade credit almost always beats the cash offer, usually by a healthy margin — if you're upgrading anyway, price your old gear as a trade against the new one before you take cash. Either way, expect the offer to be below what the gear sells for on the wall; the gap is the store's margin for setup, warranty, and sitting on it until the right buyer walks in.
Lessons at Troll Music
Reviews and the store's own info mention lessons at Troll Music. If you're signing up a beginner (or restarting yourself), a quick call ahead answers the three things that matter: which instruments they teach, whether the schedule has openings at the time you actually need, and what a first lesson costs. There's no wrong first guitar — a good teacher will happily work with whatever you walk in with, and a shop that teaches usually keeps affordable starter instruments and rentals on hand for exactly this reason.
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